Carl Gustav Jung - Primer of Jungian Psychology :: Biographies

Carl Gustav Jung - Primer of Jungian Psychology Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a tidings of a minister in Switzerland. Hewas born on July 26, in the small village of Kesswil on Lake Constance. Hewas named after his grandfather, a professor of medicine at the Universityof Basel. He was the oldest child and only surviving son of a Swiss Reformpastor. Two brothers died in infancy before Jung was born. Jungs motherwas a neurotic and often fought with his father. Father was usually lonelyand real irritable. When the child could not take his mothers depressionsand his parents fights, he sought refuge in the attic, where he playedwith a wooden mannikin. Carl was exposed to death early in life, since hisfather was a minister and attended many funerals, taking his son with him.Also, Jung saw many fishermen get killed in the waterfalls and also manypigs get slaughtered. When he was eleven, he went to a school in Basel, metmany rich people and realized that he was poor, compared t o them. He likedto read very much right(prenominal) of class and detested math and physical educationclasses. Actually, gym class used to give him fainting spells (neurosis)and his father worried that Jung wouldnt make a good aliveness because of hisspells. After Carl found out about his fathers concern, the faintssuddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious. He had to conclude his profession. His choices included archeology,history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partlybecause of his grandfather. Carl went to the University of Basel and hadto decide then what field of medicine he was going to go into. Afterreading a book on psychopathology, he decided that this was the field for him,although psychiatry was not a respectable field at the time. Jung becamean assistant at the Burgholzli Mental hospital in Zurich, a famous medicalhospital. He study under Eugen Bleuler, who was a famous psychiatristwho defined schizophrenia. Jung was als o influenced by Freud with whom helater became good friends. Freud called him his crown-prince. Theirrelationship ended when Jung wrote a book called Symbols ofTransformation. Jung disagreed with Freuds ingrained idea that a symbolis a disguised representation of a repressed wish. I will go into thatlater. After splitting up with Freud, Jung had a 2 year period of non-productivity, but then he came out with his Psychological Types, a famous